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We are asked to believe, then, it will be objected, that if
one man has been happy from first to last, another only at the
last, and a third, beginning with happiness, has lost it, their
shares are equal?
This is straying from the question: we were comparing the happy
among themselves: now we are asked to compare the not-happy at
the time when they are out of happiness with those in actual
possession of happiness. If these last are better off, they are
so as men in possession of happiness against men without it and
their advantage is always by something in the present.
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